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Following the denial of his motion to withdraw a negotiated guilty plea, Brown filed this appeal contending that the trial court erred by 1 denying his claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, and 2 finding that his guilty plea was knowing and voluntary. Finding no merit in Brown’s arguments, we affirm. The record shows that in January 2008, Brown, a staff member at Central State Hospital, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a person in custody,1 based on an allegation that he forced a resident to perform oral sex on him. As part of the plea negotiation, a second charge of aggravated sodomy2 was nolle prossed. Instead of facing a possible sentence of 25 years to life based on the alleged offenses,3 Brown was sentenced to five years probation along with certain sex-offender conditions.4

In February 2008, within the same term of court, Brown moved to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that he received ineffective assistance of counsel leading up to his guilty plea and that his plea was not knowingly and voluntarily made. The trial court held a hearing and denied his motion, and Brown appealed to this Court. Because Brown was still represented by trial counsel at the withdrawal hearing, we remanded the case for rehearing with new counsel.5

 
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